The Gulf oil spill is now at least three times the amount of the 11-million-gallon Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. How BP handles the catastrophe will be the true measure of the company — and a sign of whether the industry has learned from the disaster 21 years ago.

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Amid new questions about the safety of the chemicals used to break up the oil already in the environment, BP officials say that its latest attempt to stop the flood of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is working.

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Photo via Brian Beutler Dick Cheney’s involvement in Haliburton is hardly news to anyone — but his role in the offshore drilling industry may be. Chris Matthews went on Leno last night, and vented his anger at BP’s negligence, Cheney’s shady ties to the oil industry, and why president Obama attitude towards the catastrophe “scares” him.

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Photo: NOAA Potentially Serious Long-Term Impacts The Gulf of Mexico, where a massive oil spill is taking place right now, is also the spawning ground for the critically endangered (according to the IUCN Red List) bluefin tuna. Stocks have already fallen about 90% since the 1970s, and they could fall even closer to extinction because of this catastrophe. Indeed, the location of the spill and the timing are particularly bad for the bluefin tuna…..

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As people around the world watch the unimaginable images being streamed out of Haiti, humanitarian aid is finally reaching the people that have been devastated by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck on January 12, 2010.Â Â Food, water, medical provisions, shelter and supplies are slowly reaching those affected by the catastrophe.Â Read more of this story »